Overview

Joram M. BISWARO is the current Special Representative of the Chairperson of theAfrican Union Commission and Head of African Union Mission, in South Sudan. He playeda pivotal role in negotiation between the government and opposition culminating in theRevitalized Agreement of 2018. Amb. Biswaro (rtd) is a career journalist, diplomat andacademic. Amb. Biswaro was the first Tanzania's resident ambassador Extraordinary andPlenipotentiary to Latin America, residing in Brasilia, Brazil. He served in the samecapacity in Ethiopia, and Permanent Representative to AU and UNECA. Prof. Biswaro initiated and successfullynegotiated to include Kiswahili into the Constitutive Act of the African Union as one of the working languagesand persuaded his peers to secure the headquarters of the African court, African Bureau on Corruption and theAfrican Institute of International Law to be in Arusha, Tanzania. Prof. Biswaro has lectured in differentuniversities around the world such as Pan African University Yaoundé, Cameroon, University of Juba, SouthSudan, Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil as well as Institute of Peace and Security Studies, Addis AbabaUniversity. Prof. Biswaro has also written extensively on regional integration, pan- Africanism, diplomacy,mediation, negotiation, peace and security in Africa. Dr. Biswaro has co-authored, edited several books andjournals.